Transformers at NYCC...Spotlight Metroplex and AHM Coda

Do we really need a lead up into All Hail Megatron?

Spotlight Metroplex has me intrigued though.

Oooh, Spotlight Metroplex. I always thought the cityformers were one of the most outlandish concepts, but the character is interesting enough. I'm kind of hoping they have him turn into a space station instead of a city though, since a fortress size robot is waaay too big.

I'll probably pass on the AHM bridge, unless they do something amazing to real me in like bring Don Figueroa back. But I don't really want to sink more money into what has been to me a big step in the wrong direction for the IDW-verse.

MYoung23 wrote:All Hail Megatron Coda = attempt to fix numerous continuity errors and unexplained events in a canonical series that seemingly wasnt meant to be canon.

My Thoughts exactly.

A 12 issue Maxi series now needs another 4 issues to try and force it to fit in a universe that the writer obviously had no idea about when he pitched his series.

It also means that thus far AHM will have taken 11 issues to get to the point it is at now.

On the topic of Metroplex theres something that always bugged me. Was he the 'Autobot city' that was attacked during the Animated movie?

There were a few things (like the way the defences went up, the Drawbridge ramp etc and the fact that the city transformed at all) that made me think like that. Of course the fact he didnt transform to fight back kinda makes it obvious but things are never that simple when it comes to continuity or anything else for that matter when it coems to animation.

Spotlight Metroplex sounds interesting, I really like the one shots so I will definitely pick it up.

Coda just brings up more questions though. Was all this really necessary? Why couldn't the back story and "huge secret plans" have been in the past 7 issues of the regular AHM? It seems it would have been easier to just let Furman do Expansion at this point...

Ooooh! Spotlight: Metroplex! Nice! Does this mean we'll see a Spotlight: Trypticon down the track too?

As to his role as Autobot City: Earth, he wasn't the entire city. According to the comics he was a part/the core of the city and the reason why it could transform at all. They had to manually engage the transformation process as he was dormant underneath/within the city itself and they harnessed his transformation power while he was in this state. (If you read Space Pirates it explains it all.)

His transformation cog was stolen after the events of the movie (I think it was the Starscream's Ghost two-parter).

As to the whole AHM coda thing... if we didn't have a half-baked story/premise to begin with and they had a writer who took into account and used the existing storyline that had been carefully crafted and set up during the few years previous, we wouldn't need a bloody comic of mini-stories to patch up a dreadfully out-of-sync maxi-series. I'm sorry, but IDW seriously fudged caked up on that one!

Also, does anyone know whether they're going to let Furman back to write the "main" storyline? I know he's doing Maximum Dinobots but what's the goss on him and EJ getting back to continuing the -ation series (or something equivalent)?

Anything AHM - bring it on! 4 more issues totalling 8 more short stories of AHM - good thing in my book.

16 page poster book huh? Can't find anything on what posters. Just shocked right now that IDW is actually giving us posters.